1. Reducing Carbon Footprint in UK Further & Higher Education through Cloud Computing John Treadway, Global Director Cloud Solutions Unisys Corporation April 27, 2011 john.treadway@unisys.com

2. F&HE ICT-related Carbon Footprint © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 2 1,486,000 Computers 246,000 Printers 238,000 Servers 500,000 Tonnes of CO2e Per Year Managing Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education - JISC, 2009 www.jisc.ac.uk/publications

3. Feel the Heat? 50% of energy here… © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 3 Managing Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education - JISC, 2009 www.jisc.ac.uk/publications

4. The Carbon Impact of PCs In F&HE © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 4

5. 4.7million* of These… © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 5 "Higher Education Enrolments, and Qualifications Obtained, at Higher Education Institutions in the UK in the Academic Year 2006/07". Higher Education Statistics Agency. 10 January 2008. "The total number of HE enrolments at English HEIs stood at 1,957,195 in 2006/07.“ ^ "Further Education, Work-Based Learning, Train to Gain and Adult Safeguarded Learning - Learner Numbers in England: October 2007". Learning and Skills Council. 10 April 2008. "There were 1.75 million learners in LSC-funded FE on 1 October 2007.“. HESA and Dept for Business Innovation and Skills / Office National Statistics Published 31st March 2011

6. … create 1.55 Million Tonnes CO2e © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 6

7. What if All Students Carried iPads? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 7 More than two-thirds less – save >1.0 Mt CO2e!

8. I Carry Three “Computers” © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 8

9. That’s My Inconvenient Truth…. © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 9

10. Is this the future? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 10

11. Maybe if Steve Jobs would make it worth having? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 11 Queue the Choir…

12. Mobile Devices Increasingly Get Their Data & Services from Clouds © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 12

13. First, What Is Cloud Computing?(obligatory level set) © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 13

14. But, Are Clouds Green? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 14

15. It Depends… © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 15

16. Are Cloud Data Centers Greener than Traditional Data Centers? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 16

17. Average Server Utilization © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 17 10 – 15%

18. The Demand for Data Centers Continues to Grow “In the US, data centres account for 1.5% of national electricity consumption, and this is probably also true in the UK. And the figure is rising: the SusteIT survey found that 63% of institutions are expecting to invest in more servers over the next two years.” © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 18 Managing Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education - JISC, 2009 www.jisc.ac.uk/publications

19. But Do We Need More Servers? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 19 30% Utilization = ½ The Servers

20. A Simple Example of How Cloud Computing Promotes Consolidation © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 20 7 Servers 50% 50% 30% 30% 20% 20% 20% Department A Department B Department C 4 Servers 42% less space, electricity, carbon 70% 50% 50% 50% Departments A, B & C

21. Comparison of Carbon Emissions of Cloud-Based vs. On-Premise Delivery of Three Microsoft Applications © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 21 http://www.accenture.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDF/Accenture_Sustainability_Cloud_ Computing_TheEnvironmentalBenefitsofMovingtotheCloud.pdf

22. Case Study – University Private Cloud © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 22 2X Capacity DR In Place 2% Reduction in Energy* * Unisys projections

23. Data Center Design – Because Power Efficiency Drives Profit, Cloud Providers are Motivated To Be Green © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 23

24. Larger Cloud Data Centers Can Create Green Economies of Scale © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 24 Who is this? PUE 1.07

25. What’s Missing In This Picture? © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 25

26. Applying Mobile Technology to Data Center Servers to Reduce CO2e © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 26 256 sockets, 512 cores, 1.024 TB RAM, 1.28 Tbps

27. What Can You Do? Before Buying More Servers, Explore Combining Data Centres into Clouds – even across institutions Use Power Management To Turn Off Servers When Not In Use Replace Outdated DC Facilities and Servers Talk to Unisys… © 2011 Unisys Corporation. All rights reserved. Page 27

28. Thank You John Treadway, Global Director Cloud Solutions Unisys Corporation April 27, 2011 john.treadway@unisys.com